Happy Valentine Day
I am sneaking in a third project for the CVC February challenge which is a last frame and this one is made for my 6 year old grandson who wants to be an Astrologer. I picked out what are the nearest products I could to fit in with his story and this theme.
I began by taking these metal elements found in my supplies and used the shown products as a play time to give a rusty look to them. Cogs and gears to represent machinery, spectacles because he loves Harry Potter, a compass to help him look in the correct direction when looking for stars and planets with his telescope and propellor as he also has a love of aeroplanes. (I just couldn't fit his love of lego into this project but he's a genius with it).
For the background I used the gears embossing folder and swiped the rusty ginge embossing ink pad over to create a rusty look but as always with me everything changed as I played with different products in the process of creating the layers.
I can't honestly say what I did for each layer to end up with the design below but I had fun.
These are all the products I used and there must be at least another 4 layers on top of the rusty hinge that I started with. It certainly doesn't look like I expected it to but just experimenting always takes you down a different path and that's the excitement of it all.
Things came together well as I collected together elements to sit in the ledge at the bottom of the frame. and added words to bring it all together.
A couple of bulbs to light his way, clock gears and clock hands in the bottles represent time, time he spends creating things (he loves his arts and crafts), time he will spend gazing up at the night sky. (I already have a fabulous photo of him out one clear evening last week where he was looking for the alignment of the moon with Saturn, Venus, Jupiter and Mars). Spectacles to represent his love of the Harry Potter books, and hearts for Valentine's day.
I made up small labels to add to those bottles, bulbs and heart.
xx
Supplies
TH- Distress Spray Stain -Faded Jeans,Stormy Sky
TH - Distres Spritz - Uncharted Mariner, Vintage Photo, Crackling Campfire
TH - Distress Inks - Faded Jeans, Rusty Hinge, Uncharted Mariner
TH - Collage Medium, Crackle Paste
TH Foundry Wax - Statue
TH Embossing folder - Blueprint and Gears
DecoArt Fluid Acrylics - Quinacridone Gold, Prussian Blue Hue
All & Create Rub-ons - Acid Blends, Wanderlust Passport
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